Library Graduate Trainee Jessica Hudson explores the significance of John Ray's work in sowing the seeds of modern taxonomy. Hello, I’m Jess. I’m one of this year’s new Library Graduate Trainees and I ...

Kew’s global seed banking network, the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world. With an estimated 45% of plant species threatened with ...

Celebrate Bees' Needs Week 2026 at Kew with a day of honey tasting, science and learning activities, expert talks, tours and a chance to get up close with these precious pollinators. Did you know ...

A trusted global resource that helps regulators, industry, health professionals, and researchers find and share reliable information about health products made from plants or fungi. Plants for Health ...

Until 2022, the giant waterlily (Victoria amazonica) was the undisputed largest waterlily in the world. But through the combined work of experts across the globe, new to science species Victoria ...

A plant giant has been named new to science at Kew after spending 177 years hidden under the surface of our collections. A breaking botanical discovery has come to light, as the famous giant waterlily ...

Other common names: 鸡纳树 (Chinese Simplified), 紅雞納樹 (Chinese Traditional), rode kinaboom (Dutch), fever tree, red cinchona, quina (English), roter ...

If plant life stops, all life stops. But at Kew, we're not going to let that happen. We've only just scratched the surface of what plants and fungi can do. Now it's time to protect them and fight ...

While the fruit of the shea tree might be more well known in the West as a cosmetic ingredient, in African countries, it is a crucial food and medicinal crop. Shea butter is made boiling, drying, and ...

Do you enjoy a nice gin and tonic or know someone who does? While most people think of gin as the cocktail’s key component, we think it's time for tonic to come to the forefront. Behind the diminutive ...

Other common names: Гигантска секвоя (Bulgarian), 巨杉 (Chinese, traditional), sekvojovec obrovský (Czech), mammutbaum (Dutch), mammoetboom (Dutch ...

More than twice the size of the Palm House, the Temperate House covers 4,880 square metres, has a staggering 15,000 panes of glass and is 19 metres high at its tallest point. The Grade I listed ...